EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thunday, May 4. It30
Coxcomb Hill Slide Stopped; Winter
Rains Expected to Renew Movement
Astoria, Ore., May 4 U.R)
Engineers in this Columbia river
city reported today that the
costly Coxcomb hill slide has
stopped and appears to be set
tling until next winter's rains
arrive, possibly to start the 300
by 1200-foot slide on its way
again.
A report was on file with the
city council from Lewis Scott,
state highway department geo
logist, who was loanea io me
city during the height of the
slide because of his technical
knowledge of earth flows.
Corrections Recommended
Scott recommended that po
tential slide areas on Coxcomb
hill and in other threatened
areas be corrected at the same
time when money and condi
tions permit.
Scott said if one side of earth
flow is worked on, the opposite
side also should get attention in
order to save doing double work
and preventing aggravation of a
nearby danger area.
To correct potential earui
flows. Scott suggested:
"Excavate a deep trench, or
system of trenches that reaches
below the slippage area and
drain the sub-surface water.
He said sub-surface drainage
coupled with extensive surface
drainage can hold the moisture
of the surtace layer oi earin
within the limits of safety.
Varied Treatments
Scott pointed out that some
potential slide area would re
quire varied corrective treat
ments for water drainage.
The slide began four months
ago when heavy snow and rain
fall soaked 30 feet below the
surface to a layer of clay shale.
When wet the clay shale acted
as a greased roller for the Irving
avenue district, and 18 homes
An . Jutg I
had to be moved while four were
destroyed.
The city council has author
ized purchase of 700 feet of 16-
inch sewer pipe at a cost of $2600
to replace damaged sewers in the
slide section. Installation costs
are expected to bring the replace
ment job to $3600, they figured.
Oregon Second in
Population Boost
In Northwest Area
Seattle, Wash., May 4 (U.R)
Alaska, Oregon and Washington
stand onc-two-thrce in percent
age population increase since
1940, Pacific Northwest Census
Supervisor Gene H. Harris said
today as the 1950 roll call reach
ed its 90 per cent completed
mark.
Incomplete returns gave the
northwest and Alaska a total of
4,557,329 an all-time high.
Washington Gains Most
Washington stale showed the
greatest numerical gain in the
northwest for the decade on the
basis of incomplete returns.
Alaska's count was expected to
top the 100,000 mark for tne
first time, while Washington's
will be over the 2,000,000 figure.
The five areas combined have
gained 14.4 per cent in popula
tion, according to the incomplete
1950 census.
Multnomah Gains
Meanwhile, Multnomah coun
ty. Ore.. District Census Super
visor Carl J. Gilson said the
county's incomplete returns
showed a population of 538.000,
or a gain of nearly 203,000 from
the 1940 census total of 355,099.
The county's percentage gain so
far is approximately 57.2 per
cent.
Gilson said no more census
statistics would be released un
til later this month when they
would be nearly 100 per cent
complete.
Montana's 13.8 per cent loss
was believed exaggerated be
cause heavy winter snows and
rugged country have slowed
enumerators.
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'Acme Teleohoto.
PROPOSES TIGHTER LAWS-
wayne uoy, cnairman or tne Fed
eral Communications Commission,
shown as be asked the Senate
Commerce S u b c o m mlttee.
Washington, for a tighter law than
the one proposed by the Justice
Department to outlaw interstate
transmission of gambling infor
mation.
THAT'S TOUGH SKIING
Pinkhnm Notch, N. H. (U.R)
One of the world's most gruel
ling downhill testa is the Inferno
ski race, which drops four miles
from the top of Ml. Washington
to Sherburne Trail In Pinkham
Notch. The toughest part is the
Headwall, which has a vertical
drop of more than 1,700 feet
with gradients near 48 degrees.
Boyle Congratulates
Democrats in Oregon
Portland, Ore., May 4 (U.R)
William M. Boyle Jr., chairman
of the democratic national com
mittee today telegraphed con
gratulations to " all the people
in state headquarters and to
county chairmen and precinct
committeemen' in Oregon for
"upsetting the traditional repub
lican domination of Oregon.
An official registration count
of Oregon voters earlier this
week showed that democrats led
republicans for the first time in
Oregon s 45 years of recorded
party history.
The telegram was addressed
to the slate's two national com
mitteemen, Monroe Sweetland
and Nancy Honeyman Robinson.
Boyle said the registration
figures should prove to be an
"inspiration to democrats all
over the nation."
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Mors a Republican?
To the Editor: That Senator
Morse is not, nor ever has been
a republican, has been glaringly
apparent to many people who
have observed his political an
tics, particularly his 71 per cent
vote with the democrats in the
senate, but now we have it from
his own lips that he never joined
the republican party. At a recent
meeting of a number of senators
and others who were gathered
for the purpose of suggesting
how the republican party should
be re-made to suit the ideas of
certain so-called liberals, Sena
tor Morse said,
"I have been known as a
maverick for some time and
have taken pride in that. Now
I am going to brag about it."
And just what is a maverick?
Webster says a maverick in the
western United States is an un
branded animal, especially a
motherless calf, formerly cus
tomarily claimed by the one
first branding it." Mr. Morse
calls himself a maverick and
therefore is unbranded. Is this
not an admission that he is not
branded as a republican? And
brags about it, to boot. Then
what he is doing in the republi
can party and by what right is he
there? And why does he use me
republican party as an instru
mentality to get him into the
senate? Obviously because he
figured he would have a better
chance of election as a republi
can than as a democrat, or as an
independent. He certainly has
never acted as a republican.
Here is a further admission Dy
him that he never was a repub
lican. At that same meeting
above referred to, one of the men
present expressed his fears to
Morse that by subscribing to the
new "liberal" plan suggested, he
would be excommunicated from
the party "for having such heret
ical views" and then asked
Morse, "What about you?"
"Oh," laughed Morse, "they
can't excommunicate me. You
see, I never joined. As I said,
I'm a maverick."
"I never joined," therefore he
can't be kicked out of the repub
lican party. His meaning is
plain. At this point it would be
fair to ask, just what procedure
did he go through when he regis
tered as a republican? Certain
questions must be answered un
der oath and among them, politi
cal party affiliation. Did he say
he was a republican and have
his fingers crossed and make
mental reservations that are not
on his registration card? Here is
the oath which was required at
the time he first registered in
Oregon as a republican:
I, having been first duly
sworn, say upon oatn:
That I am a citizen of the..
United States and a qualified
elector over 21 years of age,
and the statements herein en
tered as to my qualifications as
an elector are true and that I
am in good faith a member of
the party with which I have
registered."
Voters can have no confidence
, and should not support, a
man who takes such a cynical
and contemptuous view of our
election system and who has so
small a regard for his solemn
oath. To join a party merely for
expediency and not conviction is
the lowest form of politics. "Ihe
end justifies the means," where
have we heard that before?
Fred E. Robinson
Portland Industry to
Make Articles of Wood
Another small industry mak
ing use of wood products was re
ported today by the Portland
Oregonian. The company, owned
by Thomas F. Smith, Portland.
ill produce wood novelties
which can be assembled at home
ithout nails, screws or glue.
Smith, who owns basic patents
on the articles, said such items
s magazine stands, wall brack
ets and what-nots will be turned
out. They will come knocked
down and unfinished, and will
be simple enough that children
can assemble them. Pieces are
cut to interlock, some being held
together by dowels or strips of
wood.
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Japanese Textile
Leaders Discuss
Cotton Production
Tokyo, May 4 U.R) Japanese
officials and textile industry
leaders discussed proposals to
day to expand Japan's cotton pro
duction, apparently with the aim
of spiking reports that an Anglo
American cotton textile trade
mission will try to restrict Jap
anese competition.
The mission arrives here Sun
day under permission from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur to visit Ja
pan in a "private capacity."
To Chuck Competition
Japanese and occupation
sources said they expected the
mission would seek restrictive
agreements with the Japanese to
divide up world markets and to
check the threat of Japanese
competition with American and
British textile industries.
One American official said oc
cupation headquarters would
firmly oppose such a scheme.
Meanwhile, Trade Minister Sc
taro Takase and Osaka textile
manufacturers proposed increas
ing the number of cotton spindles
by 50 to 100 per cent.
More Spindles Needed
Takase said he believed Japan
will have to operate 6 million
spindles, 50 per cent more than
are now in use, if textiles are to
help do their part in expanding
Japan's exports.
Industry leaders estimate they
will eventually require 8,400,000
spindles.
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Footlighters Tell
Plans for Growth
And Own Building
The Footlighters, local little
theater group, has inaugurated
a new plan in its effort to ac-1
quire a "place of its own." The !
group of valley thespians is look- i
ing for a barn, a warehouse or
practically "any old thing," in :
which to hold meetings, store j
costumes, drops and eventually
erect a stage on which to produce j
their plays, members said.
Similar groups all over the :
country have proceeded from the !
same struggle to success. Among
them are such outstanding
groups as the Pasadena play-
house, Portland's Civic theater
and the Eugene Very Little j
theater.
Plan Sponsor I
The Footlighters' present plan,
it was reported, is to offer a
yearly sponsoring membership to
people in the Rogue River val
ley who are interested in ama
teur theatricals and interested
in seeing the group grow and
succeed. They are at present ;
compiling a list of sponsors to
appear on the program of "The j
Torch Bearers, to be produced j
by the group May 11 and 12 in 1
the Medford senior high school", j
Due to the limitation of time i
before the production, the group ;
has not been able to contact all
people they feel would be in-1
terested. Anyone who would like j
to be a member of the group,
either active or sponsoring, may j
contact Mrs. James B. Keeble, I
phone Medford 2-7507.
Jet Fighters Leave After
The four F-86 "Sabre" jet
fighter planes which have been
at the Medford airport since last
week-end, departed for the north
yesterday afternoon. Three of
the fast ships took off, but one
returned for a later take-off with
Airport Stay
the fourth, which at first had
difficulty getting its engine
started.
The jets have attracted much
.mention during their stay here.
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